Professors and Senior Scientists
| Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen | Responses of Plants and Ecosystems to Global Environmental Change | Physiological Plant Ecology |
| Prof. Dr. Beat Keller | The cereal genomes: hidden treasures for evolutionary genomics and agronomy | Plant Molecular Biology |
| Dr. Michael Kessler | Tropical plant biodiversity and biogeography | Tropical Pant Biodiversity and Biogeography |
| Prof. Dr. Felix Kessler | Discovering how chloroplasts are made | Chloroplasts and Photosynthesis |
| Prof. Dr. Lian Pin Koh | Environmental science and policy | Reconciliation of Conservation and Development |
| Prof. Dr. Christian Körner | Ecosystem function and biodiversity under global change | Plant Ecology |
| Dr. Christoph Küffer | Global change ecology | Global Change Ecology |
| Prof. Dr. Cris Kuhlemeier | Plant developmental biology | Plant Developmental Biology |

